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| MIDI music in Xak Gazzel?
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yum
msx addict
Berichten: 337 |  Geplaatst: 17 Oktober 2004, 22:29 |
I have heard several times that Xak Gazzel has MIDI music just like Illusion City. But how do I activate this MIDI music? I have a MSX Turbo R GT with a Roland MT32 module and Illusion City works fine with MIDI. Anybody have any tips?
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Sonic_aka_T
msx guru
Berichten: 2253 | Geplaatst: 17 Oktober 2004, 22:59 |
I don't think you can activate it. There should be some .RCP files on disk tho, which are the source of the 'MIDI' data. I could ofcourse be wrong tho, which would make this post pretty useless...  |
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Sonic_aka_T
msx guru
Berichten: 2253 | Geplaatst: 17 Oktober 2004, 23:00 |
Oh! 747! I'm a big airplane! Next stop 777!
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snout
msx legend
Berichten: 4987 | Geplaatst: 17 Oktober 2004, 23:03 |
Only the introdemo of Gazzel features MIDI music. By pressing 'M' during boot you get to enjoy 3 delightful MT-32 tunes.
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Sonic_aka_T
msx guru
Berichten: 2253 | Geplaatst: 17 Oktober 2004, 23:21 |
See, I'm wrong... I'll just shut up now...
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yum
msx addict
Berichten: 337 | Geplaatst: 17 Oktober 2004, 23:34 |
Thank you very much. Gonna try it right away!
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evulopah
msx addict
Berichten: 438 | Geplaatst: 18 Oktober 2004, 09:59 |
Does anyone know were I can find the .mid files from Illusion City & Xak Gazzel so I can play them with the MT-32 emulation tool?????
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IC
msx professional
Berichten: 538 | Geplaatst: 18 Oktober 2004, 10:24 |
I know some ND'ers released a disk called 'illusions' in ehr.. 1995 orso.. And if I'm not mistaken, that disk contained all the original midi files of illusion city
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Grauw
msx professional
Berichten: 1002 | Geplaatst: 18 Oktober 2004, 12:21 |
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yum
msx addict
Berichten: 337 | Geplaatst: 18 Oktober 2004, 16:06 |
Hmmmm, I´ve tried the MIDI version of Xak Gazzel and I am not that impressed. I like the FM-pac version more. The musical scores are a bit different though. The last music has a "real ending" in the MIDI version. I like Illusion city more!
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MeitsNearDark
msx professional
Berichten: 694 | Geplaatst: 18 Oktober 2004, 16:55 |
You need a turbo R GT midi, with preverably a Roland CM32L (MT32's bigger brother). I noticed that in Illusion City some effects were wrong on a MT32, but ok on a CM32L.
In XAK Gazzel only the intro demo contains MIDI musix whilst having beforementioned hardware and M pressed during boot.
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evulopah
msx addict
Berichten: 438 | Geplaatst: 18 Oktober 2004, 18:13 |
Thx for the link Grauw
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snout
msx legend
Berichten: 4987 | Geplaatst: 18 Oktober 2004, 19:09 |
I agree with yum though that in most cases (even in Illusion City) the FM-songs sound better than the MIDI songs. I used to have a Roland JV-30 synth which had an MT-32 emulation mode, but then with improved sounds. The third part of the XAK Gazzel introdemo sounded truly amazing on that synth  |
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Berichten: 3048 | Geplaatst: 18 Oktober 2004, 19:27 |
It's simple... FM RULEZ
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Low_Profile
msx addict
Berichten: 289 | Geplaatst: 18 Oktober 2004, 19:37 |
Quote:
| You need a turbo R GT midi, with preverably a Roland CM32L (MT32's bigger brother). I noticed that in Illusion City some effects were wrong on a MT32, but ok on a CM32L.
In XAK Gazzel only the intro demo contains MIDI musix whilst having beforementioned hardware and M pressed during boot.
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That's REALLY weird, as the CM32L is an exact copy of the MT-32... with only a few pcm samples added (some soundeffects like thunderclaps, rain, carhonking etc) but those are hardly a reason to go for the non-lcd version of the MT-32 
I've owned both a MT-32 and a CM32L and they sound exactly the same. It could be those sound effects I'm talking about are used in Illusion City, but the music should sound exactly the same.
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